And being libertarian has morphed from a cute colloquialism which meant "basically liberal with some looser views on drugs and prostitution" in the 70's and 80's and in less than two decades warped it into "Anti-government, taxation is theft, anti """""white genocide"""""", conspiracy-wielding, wannabe-captains-of-industry who never actually made it through Atlas Shrugged but pretend they have so they can talk about sterilizing the poor and imply blacks are subhuman -- but with pot!"

Basically people with parents who worship Rush Limbaugh so they take on all that baggage, but 'rebel' with a small handful of cherry-picked liberal ideas about societal freedoms. The center did not hold apparently.